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Aaron Gustafson
Personal blog · aaron-gustafson.com/notebook · on HN as aarongustafsonwebdesign
Aaron Gustafson's personal blog at aaron-gustafson.com covers web and design. Since 2015, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “A response to Josh Korr’s post on the argument for Progressive Enhancement”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's Apple support post as a firsthand account of a bad repair: a cracked screen, a phone bricked during repair, and a required deposit. One commenter cites it as evidence against Apple.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hi there, I’m Aaron and I work on the Web.
Most-linked posts?
- A response to Josh Korr’s post on the argument for Progressive Enhancement2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-07
What Hacker News says?
I've read some pretty horrifying stories about Apple (this person had a cracked screen, Apple bricked the phone while attempting to repair it, replaced it behind his back, then charged him 3x -- they also have a required replacement device "security deposit" you must pay up front in order to even get them to attempt a repair): https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/apple-support-honey... There's a reason why third…
Comment linking /notebook/apple-support-honeybadger/
on “My Pixel has a manufacturing defect”Submitted Locking down your GitHub-hosted Domains as a story · 108 points
HN discussionComcast: https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/the-network-effect/ Some also block JS (sometimes accidentally). Remember Sky? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/28/sky-broad...
Comment linking /notebook/the-network-effect/
on “Why we use progressive enhancement to build Gov.uk”Submitted A response to Josh Korr’s post on the argument for Progressive Enhancement as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Variables Are a Bad Idea as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Equality vs. Equity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted [Insert Clickbait Headline About Progressive Enhancement Here] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM biased against accessible code (Claude Code issue #56079) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rebuilding a PHP App Using Isometric JavaScript with Eleventy and Netlify as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Spellcheckers exfiltrating PII not so fast as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressive Enhancement Just Works as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons in Averaging as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressive Misconceptions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strapless: Arguments for Not Using Bootstrap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple and their influence on web standards as a story · 1 points
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